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Ignite Beijing March 3rd
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Ignit Week BeijingOur good book sponsor, O'Reilly is pushing their Ignite concept one step further this year and making a Global Ignite Week from March 1st to 5th. In short, it's an opportunity to share your ideas over a beer, and send the word out through your network with a 5 minutes presentation made of 20 slides (15 seconds per slides moving automatically). Watching this video of what Ignite is (youtube link for people outside of China) is definitely worth 5 minutes of your time. So O'Reilly China is helping you to get your word out in Beijing and you find out all the details and register here. Definitely something to mark down on your calendar!
 
Hackerspace in Beijing
Thursday, 04 February 2010
HackerspaceFollowing up on building a Hackerspace in Beijing after last month presentation we have been moving forward with the plan. Since then Jean has started a Hackerspace Group in the BLUG and a few members have been discussing in the forum to put ideas together like budgeting and location. Clone, a geeky talented architect even stepped forward and is willing to contribute on the design of the hackerspace. In order to establish our budgeting, we need your input: there is now a poll on the left side of the page for interested members to vote! To make the Hackerspace happening in Beijing, please participate and let us know how much you would be willing to contribute and which kind of membership (monthly, bi-yearly or yearly) suits you better!
 
BLUG VP becomes Software Freedom International President
Wednesday, 03 February 2010

FredOur BLUG Vice President, Fred (previously President) was elected to be the new president for Software Freedom International 2010! As you may know, with Fred's leadership, we have been involved in promoting and organizing SFD events in China since 2007. Our SFD 2007 event was elected to be the best event award. Starting from 2008, we have been involved in the worldwide promotion and responsible for the Schwags (gift packs) delivering to all the registered SFD teams in the world. In 2009, we assisted the launch of sfdchina.org and supported over 70 SFD events in China. This great news definitely would bring BLUG to a higher level of involvement in the Software Freedom Day  events! Congratulation to Fred and all the best to Software Freedom Day 2010. 

 
GNOME.Asia Summit 2010 - Call for Host
Saturday, 30 January 2010
GNOME.Asia Summit As a co-organzer of GNOME.Asia Summit 2008 in Beijing, BLUG had been having an active roll in the GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 in HoChiMinh City, Vietnam as well. Right now, the GNOME.Asia Commitee is calling for potential host of the Summit this year. Interested community (anywhere in Asia) just need to send a proposal to the committee before end of March. Please feel free to click "read more" to view the whole announcement. Thanks for passing the message along!
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BLUG - Executive Member of COPU
Friday, 29 January 2010
COPU BLUG, member of China Open Source Promotion Union (COPU) for a few years now, was invited to join and participate in the 3rd General Assembly for the first time on January 28, 2010. The great revelation for us bluggers is that we had now been selected to become an Executive Member on COPU's board. After a quick vote from the existing board members we got approved together with another group of about 10 companies. COPU's board is now made of 51 executive members, and BLUG is the only FOSS Community appointed! Other members are Government departments, Open Source companies and universities. We want to extend our thanks to both COPU board members for acknowledging our contributions to the Chinese Open Source landscape and our members for making us stronger over the years! Seems a bottle of Champagne is in order to celebrate (local Yanjing champagne of course)...
 
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Meetings

When do we meet?

  • Monthly Meetings - every 2nd Tuesday of every month around  Gui Jie BLUG Meeting
  • Chuanr Nights Social Events - arranged by Chuanr Committee once or twice a month at selected chuanr restaurants
  • Special Guests in Town Meetings - whenever we have guests specialized in Open Source coming to Beijing
  • Groups Meetings - to be announced by Group Leaders respectively on a weekly, monthly or occasional basis
  • Open Source conferences or events
  • BLUG Anniversary - every year on November 19th

Why join?

Do I need to register to the website?

Be a bluggerYou don't need to register to the BLUG website to attend our monthly meetings, however by registering here you will be able to:
  • Receive email notifications before events as well as important Open Source and Beijing LUG related information
  • Be able to post questions and answers in the forum
  • Join or create your own existing group within our friendly community
  • Contribute to our current Open Source project list
  • Help us to add information in our Wiki
  • Lend books and cool gadgets from our Open Library
  • Be recognized as a cool member from the Beijing LUG

Groups

Can't get enough of BLUG?

Coding for Fun GroupIf you feel meeting once a month is not enough and have lots of energy for more, then BLUG Groups are for you. Whether you just want to join one of our numerous group or start your own, the possibilities are infinite:

Participate

You're passionate and have free time to give?

ParticipateThen BLUG needs you! We have a few ongoing projects that require help and contributors. From project management to drive testing, writing articles, searching news, sorting out the wiki, designing icons, cool banners and more marketing materials, translating into Chinese and data entry, we can surely find the right spot for you!

How to start? Contact us through here and tell us more about your interests and skills and how much time you have. Similarly, if you find something exciting in the group section just subscribe to that particular group and contact the team leader with the same information. Ultimately you can also start your own project within the BLUG and get people to support your effort!

Fun

Needless to say that we have Fun!

    Beautiful Cake
If you're not convinced by looking at our front page, reading our forum or looking at the sub-communities generated by our members, then you probably want to take a look at all the pictures we take at every event we host, or probably the video from Software Freedom Day 2007.

If this is still not enough, then it's time for you to get away from your PC and join us at our next event or incredibly torrid Chuan'r nights!